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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	James Bottomley <jbottomley@parallels.com>,
	linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, Jeremy Linton <jlinton@tributary.com>,
	Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>, Doug Gilbert <dgilbert@interlog.com>,
	Kai Makisara <kai.makisara@kolumbus.fi>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] Add EVPD page 0x83 to sysfs
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2014 11:42:55 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140305194255.GA5607@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5316D459.6070107@suse.de>

On Wed, Mar 05, 2014 at 08:38:01AM +0100, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
> > Either way I think the call to query evpd 0 should be a separate
> > function, so even if we don't store the information it's abstracted out.
> > 
> Hmm. That would work if we were just asking for a single page; but
> when we're checking several pages (like 0x83 and 0x80) we'd need
> either to pass in a page array or querying page 0 several times.
> Neither of which is very appealing.
>
> However, specifying additional flags for the individual pages might
> work. I'll see what I can come up with.

Passing in a bitmask or flags seems useful.  Even better storing it in the
scsi_device.  Note that I expect the place that need to know the EVPD
patch to grow slowly but steadily over time.

  reply	other threads:[~2014-03-05 19:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-13 10:07 [PATCHv7 0/3] Display EVPD pages in sysfs Hannes Reinecke
2014-02-13 10:07 ` [PATCH 1/3] scsi_sysfs: Implement 'is_visible' callback Hannes Reinecke
2014-02-13 10:07 ` [PATCH 2/3] Add EVPD page 0x83 to sysfs Hannes Reinecke
2014-02-28 17:01   ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-03-05  7:38     ` Hannes Reinecke
2014-03-05 19:42       ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2014-03-06  9:01         ` Hannes Reinecke
2014-03-07 10:11           ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-03-07 10:35             ` Hannes Reinecke
2014-03-07 10:44               ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-03-07 10:39           ` James Bottomley
2014-03-07 10:51             ` Hannes Reinecke
2014-03-07 11:01               ` James Bottomley
2014-03-07 11:18                 ` Douglas Gilbert
2014-03-07 13:39                 ` Hannes Reinecke
2014-03-07 10:40           ` James Bottomley
2014-03-07 10:43             ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-03-07 10:57               ` James Bottomley
2014-02-13 10:07 ` [PATCH 3/3] Add EVPD page 0x80 " Hannes Reinecke
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2014-02-13 10:27 [PATCHv7 0/3][Resend] Display EVPD pages in sysfs Hannes Reinecke
2014-02-13 10:28 ` [PATCH 2/3] Add EVPD page 0x83 to sysfs Hannes Reinecke
2014-03-02  8:34   ` Bart Van Assche
2014-03-05  7:56     ` Hannes Reinecke
2014-03-02  8:36   ` Bart Van Assche
2014-03-05  7:56     ` Hannes Reinecke

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